Kristin A. Collins

Kristin A. Collins is the James E. and Sarah A. Degan Professor of Law at the University of Michigan Law School, where she teaches courses on immigration and citizenship law, federal courts, civil procedure, and legal history. Her writings on American citizenship law include “Bureaucracy as the Border: Administrative Law and the Citizen Family,” 66 Duke Law Journal 1727 (2017) and “Illegitimate Borders: Jus Sanguinis Citizenship and the Legal Construction of Family, Race, and Nation,”123 Yale Law Journal 2134 (2014). She was the Senior Visiting Fellow at Oxford University’s Rothermere American Institute in 2017-2018 and a National Endowment for the Humanities Long-Term Fellow at the Massachusetts Historical Society in 2014.